Re: Could lxc-templates be backported to buster?

[Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz>]

On 19/11/21 2:19 am, Boyuan Yang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 在 2021-11-19星期五的 01:24 +1300，Richard Hector写道：
> > Hi,
> >
> > The debian template doesn't do quite the right thing for building 
> > bullseye containers - it gets the security line in sources.list wrong.
> >
> > The version in bullseye appears to fix that (naturally).
> >
> > Could it be backported, so that bullseye containers can be built nicely 
> > on buster hosts?
>
> This is a bug of package lxc-templates in Debian Buster. The bug should be
> fixed in the main archive. Backporting is not the proper way of fixing bug --
> this would leave the package in main archive still buggy.
>
> Please consider opening a bug report against package lxc-template in Debian.
> Also forwarding your email to package maintainers (in CC list).

I guess that's true ...

There is a bug already (#970067), and it has been fixed and archived; it 
just hasn't been applied to buster.

I've filed a new one referring to that.

Cheers,
Richard